Edge of Emulation: Game Boy Sewing Machines (2020)
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dfajgljsldkjag
7 hours ago
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I had no idea you could connect a Game Boy to a sewing machine. The Mario embroidery patterns actually look kind of cute now that they are working. It is nice to see people preserving weird pieces of history like this.
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vessenes
7 hours ago
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I wasn't sure whether this was emulating the sewing machine, or driving an actual sewing machine from the emulator -- it's the latter.

Followup request - digital emulated sewing machine! Should be a breeze based on the blog!

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c22
1 hour ago
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Secret Life of Machines emulated a sewing machine on humans: https://youtu.be/8lwI4TSKM3Y?t=328
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jogu
7 hours ago
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In the video at the end you can see it’s the former. They’re drawing a digital representation of the commands the emulator is sending to the “sewing machine”.
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giancarlostoro
6 hours ago
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If you can emulate the sewing machine... can you run it fast enough to run a GB emulator inside of it? : )
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mock-possum
8 hours ago
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Wow crazy that there aren’t more screenshots of the actual software UI that’s what I was really hoping for here
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ChrisArchitect
9 hours ago
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